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SingStar Updates

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:54:48 +0000

With SingStar ABBA hitting the shelves today for PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation 2, we wanted to share with you some new SingStar updates.

We’ve been listening to your feedback over the last few months and wanted to let you know that we will be adding 60+ songs to the North American SingStore over the next few months. We’ll be sure to keep you all posted as we begin rolling out new songs to the SingStore. In the meantime, here’s a highlight of songs to appear in the coming weeks:

UB40 – ‘Red Red Wine’
Billy Joel – ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’
Chumbawamba- ‘Tubthumping’
David Bowie- ‘Let’s Dance’
Pink – ‘Get the Party Started’
Queen- ‘The Show Must Go On’
New Order- ‘Blue Monday 88′
Men at Work - ‘Down Under’
Starship - ‘We Built This City’

Just in time for the holidays we will also be releasing a Christmas song pack to the SingStore in mid-December featuring popular Christmas carols from top artists such as Toni Braxton, Celine Dion and Paul McCartney. The pack will be available for $6.99 and will include the following tracks:

Toni Braxton – ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Xmas’
Babyface – ‘Sleigh Ride’
Shakin’ Stevens – ‘Merry Christmas’
Paul McCartney – “Wonderful Christmastime’
Celine Dion – ‘Christmas Eve’

For all you SingStar fans with an extensive PS2 SingStar Library, a free game update will be made available by Christmas which will let you play your existing PS2 SingStar titles on your PS3. The new feature will work with all current PS3 systems and will not require a system software update. Just note, this feature is only compatible with SingStar discs.

Thank you all very much for your support and feedback. We’re committed to improving the North American SingStore and will keep you posted with new releases and updates.

Monsters vs. Aliens Spawns Videogame

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:06:33 +0000

Dreamworks’ upcoming movie is launching complete with a cross platform Monsters vs. Aliens videogame. Players will take on Gallaxhar and his giant alien robots alternating between a team of wacky monsters to save the world.

The Missing Link, the macho half-ape, half-fish pictured above uses acrobatics as well as brute strength. The gelatinous, indestructible and always hungry B.O.B. is a cross between an ooze and Kirby. Ginormica, the 49-foot-11-inch tall woman and Insectosaurus the 350-foot tall grub combine size with their other unique talents to pound aliens into submission. A fifth member of the team; Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D.; waits in the wings, available as an assist in co-op multiplayer mode.

Monsters vs. Aliens launches March 2009 for PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii and DS. You can find the latest details on Monsters vs. Aliens at FileFront.

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Atari to publish Ready 2 Rumble Revolution and Demigod

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:18:46 +0000

More from today’s London Atari event. The firm’s to publish Ready 2 Rumble Revolution on Wii next March, featuring boxers based on Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Beckham, Brad Pitt and John Travolta. Atari also announced today it’s to publish GPG’s Demigod, presumably in Europe. Stardock’s got it in the US. Thanks, Techradar.

God of War III trailer to be shown on December 14

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:47:54 +0000

Spike’s going to broadcast the supposedly phenomenal God of War III trailer on December 14. The showing’s going to be made at 9.00pm PST, as you can see here. Look in the right column. Both SCEE employees and David Jaffe have reported the project as being a big step forward graphically, so keep those peepers properly peeled. Thanks, [...]

Ready 2 Rumble Revolution punching out Wii in March 2009

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:35:00 +0000

Filed under: Sports

Though we don't know much at the moment, CVG is reporting that Atari will release Ready 2 Rumble Revolution on the Wii in March of next year. In case you're among the sad few unfamiliar with the franchise, Ready 2 Rumble was a cartoonish boxing game ... really Facebreaker before Facebreaker was Facebreaker. (Oh, and before you panic, we captured the pic above from one of those older R2Rs.)

The series has typically featured mini-games to train your boxer like pill popping and weight lifting, as well as celebrity cameos like Michael Jackson and Hillary Clinton. They've been replaced in R2RR by David Beckham, Brad Pitt and John Travolta. Go figure.

Ready 2 Rumble Revolution punching out Wii in March 2009 originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Heavy Rain is single-player only, doesnt need buttons - new shots

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:40:21 +0000

1UP’s posted a new interview on Heavy Rain with Quantic Dream’s David Cage, confirming the PS3 thriller will have no online play component. “Heavy Rain’s an experience about interactive narrative and emotion, and we really wanted to focus on making these core elements right,” said Cage. “The game will support the Trophy system and may offer some [...]

Analyst predicts Nintendo makes $6 for every Wii sold

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:02:57 +0000

Nintendo has not missed a financial beat this generation. First the DS started things off nicely, then the Wii comes along and adds to the circle of dominating sales. But outside of a couple ‘Nintendo prints money!’ jokes, no one knows exactly how well the company has been doing, until now. Macquarie Securities analyst David Gibson took some of his free time to come up with an unofficial estimate of how much money Nintendo is making for every Wii sold.

Gibson predicts that for every Wii that Nintendo sells, the company makes a $6 profit off of the unit. To put that into perspective take a month of NPD sales on the Wii and multiply that number sold by $6 and you’ll have a clear picture of the profit the company made on the console that month. So in October, when they sold 803,000 Wiis, they theoretically made $4,818,000. Six bucks doesn’t seem like much, but it does seem to add up.

Besides that little prediction, Gibson also took the time to look at the financial states of the PS3 and Xbox 360. He has the latter just about breaking even, while the former loses money everytime a PS3 is sold. No official tally was given on just how much money the PS3 loses when sold, but losing money in any situation is never a good thing for big business.

Nintendo makes $6 from every Wii sold

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:27:40 +0000

According to this Forbes report, Macquarie Securities analyst David Gibson reckons Nintendo makes a grand total of $6 from every Wii unit sold. Nintendo profits are aided by its strong first party software sales, the analyst added: Nintendo titles are reported as having a 60 percent attach rate. Comparatively, the report states that Sony loses money on [...]

Sonic and the Ludicrous Body Armor

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:34:00 +0000

Filed under: Screens

So it has come to this. Sonic and Knuckles, both kitted out in body armor (including some truly laughable headwear on Knuckles), and having it out with swords. Just kill us now.

The latest fifteen screens of Sonic and the Black Knight suggest that Sega has learned nothing from the critical response to Sonic Unleashed. Many reviews heavily criticized the werehog melee sections, but praised the running bits. So why are Sonic and Knuckles now exchanging scimitar swipes?! Sega's fascination with turning Sonic games into some kind of cartoony God of War baffles us.

Mind you, one possible explanation for this trend cropped up in the latest IGN 'Three Red Lights' podcast, where Sonic Unleashed developer David Clayman argued that a Sonic game featuring only running stages would last around three hours, such is the hedgehog's speed (full transcript here). In which case, may we politely suggest a WiiWare Sonic game, David?

Gallery: Sonic and the Black Knight

[Screens via press release; Indoor Heroes link via Go Nintendo]

Sonic and the Ludicrous Body Armor originally appeared on Nintendo Wii Fanboy on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Anti-Aliased: You've been Auto-Assaulted

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, News items, Opinion, Tabula Rasa, Anti-Aliased

"Absolutely. [The restructuring] has no impact on Tabula Rasa. ... I don't know where the rumors are coming from, but with [marketing blitz] Operation Immortality in full swing, the team's very dedicated to that game, and they are still working on it," said David Swofford, Director of Public Relations of NCsoft to Edge Online on September 11th. "Tabula Rasa is a triple-A MMO. It is a game that is very much in the wheelhouse of what NC West and NCsoft globally are all about," said David Reid, President of Publishing of NC West on September 24th. "...we see improvement happening in Tabula...

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